Things from the 1970s that are difficult to explain to today's generation:

Soap-on-a-rope

Suggestions?

Need a last minute holiday gift? Might I suggest, what ever these are.
#crocs #wierd #oddity #funny

Spider lovers scurry to LaJunta in search of amorous tarantulas and community

“When you encounter them, they’re more afraid of you,” Shillington said.

https://sentinelcolorado.com/state-and-region-news/spider-lovers-scurry-to-lajunta-in-search-of-amorous-tarantulas-and-community/

The neighbours are at it again.

#Oddity #Horror #Bantry #WestCork #BantryHouse #DamianMcCarthy

https://www.echolive.ie/entertainment/whatson/arid-41465584.html

For the evening crowd: "a horror fan’s delight of murder, revenge and the supernatural, dripping creepy, unsettling atmosphere throughout"

https://www.liveforfilm.com/2024/08/18/edinburgh-international-film-festival-2024-review-oddity-a-horror-fans-delight-of-murder-revenge-and-the-supernatural/

My review of Damian McCarthy's Irish #horror , Oddity, is up on @PhilEdwards 's Live For Films now

It's been an odd day around here. Our guy with Alzheimer's and dementia has flipped moods many times, and very quickly without warnings. While he naps I am working with photos from our Flagstaff Blitz vacation and this one seemed right for my mood too. Seen in a shop window downtown early morning. #Fur #Stare #Oddity #Flagstaff

ODDITY #Review

Though a glacially paced middle act almost Skinamarink's this into tedium, Oddity remains the BEST Irish horror movie of 2024 released in July.

Full Review #Link Below-- This Oddity (2024) Review Notices the Chupacabra in the Gladiator II Trailer!

http://hub.me/aqUwo

Space Oddity

a most peculiar rock photographed in 3D by the Mars rover Opportunity, near Beagle Crater, July 17, 2006 (Sol 881). To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell

Space Oddity

The amazing “Sombrero Rock” captured in Stereo3D by Perseverance on Sol 907 (Sept. 8, 2023).

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye .

Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

I still maintain that this is one of the most incredible things I've ever beheld: Microsoft's instructional video showing how to host a Windows 7 Launch Party in your home, for friends and neighbors. It's the notion of so doing more than the instructional video that is so gobsmacking, really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ

How did your Windows 7 Launch Party go?

We see the word "Ruthless" used (mostly to mean merciless or cruel, like a tyrant) but we rarely see "Ruthful".

Also, it's interesting that thesauri mainly list Sympathetic and Compassionate as antonyms of Ruthless. Likewise, Ruthless is generally not listed as the main antonym of Ruthful.

Guess it's just one of those things where usage sense and frequency has drifted w time. Nothing to rue though.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruthless

This is one of my favourite purchases ever: a chair that flips into being a stepladder. The seller called it a library chair.

I bought it mostly for novelty reasons but it’s proven very handy.

Depending on your zoom level, you could get stuck in Newbury. #map #oddity

NEW EPISODE!

We had a great time this week. We talk about #Centipedes, #Mushrooms, and #Amoebas.

There's also a shout-out to @openscience in this week's show.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nrzsa-1345cdb

Here’s another #language #oddity. In #Urdu, the word for tomorrow and yesterday is the same; it is only the tense of the verb that will tell you if the event is in the future or the past.